{"id":91627,"date":"2025-08-25T12:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91627\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:53:08","slug":"mathias-norsgaard-joins-lidl-trek-through-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91627\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathias Norsgaard joins Lidl-Trek through 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Danish rouleur excited to bring his strength to Lidl-Trek for the next two seasons\n    <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lidl-Trek is excited to welcome Danish rouleur Mathias Norsgaard to the Team on a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Norsgaard\u2019s arrival adds yet another family connection within the Team. The Dane joins Lidl-Trek from Movistar, following the path of his sister Emma, who signed with the women\u2019s squad at the start of 2025. At 2m02, Norsgaard will be the tallest rider ever to wear Lidl-Trek colors, and with strength to match his height, he will be a valuable addition in a wide variety of race scenarios. His palmar\u00e8s so far includes victory at the Danish national time trial championship in 2022, where he denied both Mattias Skjelmose and Mads Pedersen.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no nonsense here, just pure grinta and respect for each other.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2217685538-scaled-1000x0-c-default.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m so, so excited to join the Team,\u201d said Mathias Norsgaard. \u201cThis feels like a step up for me. At the end of the day, my job as a cyclist is to be a domestique, and I\u2019ve been looking for that one big leader I could fully commit to. With Mads, I feel I\u2019ve found exactly that. I want to be excellent at my job, and I have one big dream: to help Mads win a Monument.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m two years younger than Mads, so I grew up knowing him without being close friends. Over the years I\u2019ve seen him become a leader like few others in the sport\u2014you don\u2019t need to ask him if he\u2019s a leader, you see it in the way he talks to riders and staff. We\u2019ve spoken about riding together before, but cycling doesn\u2019t always offer the perfect situation. Now it does. Mads likes big riders, and at 2m02 I\u2019m the tallest in the WorldTour, which I think can really help me in my work as a domestique.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy impression of Lidl-Trek is that it\u2019s one of the best-run teams in the sport. There\u2019s no nonsense here, just pure grinta and respect for each other. With leaders like Mads, Ciccone, Milan, and Skjelmose, I know there will always be a role for me and a clear purpose in the Team. Hearing from Emma about how the Team works only made the decision easier. I\u2019ve raced on the same team as my sister before, and it\u2019s a crazy but special feeling. Sharing camps and races with her brings a lot of pride to my family, and I can\u2019t wait to experience that again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMathias is a strong engine and we\u2019re pleased to welcome him on board for the next two seasons,\u201d said Luca Guercilena, Lidl-Trek General Manager. \u201cHe has the power to work on the front for a long time, but also the versatility to support the Team deep into the finals. He has shown strong ability in time trials, and we believe there is still more potential to unlock there. Above all, Mathias is highly motivated to give everything for his teammates, and we are confident he will fit seamlessly into our group.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danish rouleur excited to bring his strength to Lidl-Trek for the next two seasons Lidl-Trek is excited to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-91627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}